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 Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:15 pm
"She only go' better last week."
Ike stayed silent after that and stood, wandering off to the corner with his tail dragging along the floor like some kind of depressed mop.
"Alri'...but if ye change yer mind, I'm 'ere," Liam said and gave Rabid a kind of "shut-up-before-you-depress-yourself-you-idiot" stare.
Rabid winced, her mind returning to her younger days. Sure, she'd seen plenty of bodies in trees back then. Familiar ones. Not to mention the meals she'd hidden. It wasn't that those were very negative memories, of course, but since when did Julian delight in the pain of others?
"I...I think you've been driven to sadism," she smiled slightly, "and I mean that in the most positive way possible."
You screwed up.
I didn't screw up. It was Crow's soul. As if you were actually displeased...
"Eurgh...forget I said anything," Rabid accidentally voice and looked up once more to see her son sniffling in the corner, "Err...somebody...really...beat him?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:47 pm
Unmoved by her friend's show of sadness, Lenore looked at Rabid with solemn apathy.
"I was jus' telling him to stop being a brat and get over Julian bein' evil."
Julian sagged slightly - he hadn't meant to creep Rabid out. Why was it, though, that she was untouched by something so obviously hilarious?
"I guess she doesn't really like that kind of humor, huh?" he said to Crow, still mildly confused. Crow, who had found the situation equally entertaining (though a bit of a hassle to clean up), merely shrugged.
"Maybe dead bodies in trees isn't her thing," she said, wondering briefly at Rabid's reaction.
Eh. Maybe it was just Vampire thing.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:55 pm
"He's...mentally unstable," Rabid shrugged to Lenore and stood, peering at Crow and Julian, "You don't understand, then, do you?" She shrugged and went off after her son. She picked him up and brought him back to her seat, patting his back and singing...something...in Vavvian. He didn't cry often, but it was fairly hard to get him to stop.
Ike just kind of lay there, curled in a ball and making the front of Mummy's shirt wet.
Liam leaned back in his chair, trying to change the subject as quickly as possible. He didn't want any blood spatter. Not today.
"Errr...oh! Still not leaking soul, I hope?"
He had accidentally purposefully forgotten to check up recently.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:02 pm
Ah, spoot.
She hadn't meant to make him cry. Creeping over towards him and Rabid, a bit wary of his mother in case she wanted to inflict any punishment for upsetting her child, she eyed him with concern.
"Didn't mean to," she mumbled, feeling ashamed.
Checking himself instinctively, as he had been doing obsessively for days, Julian shook his head.
"No, I'm okay."
Physically, anyway. But...I'm gonna get that other problem fixed pretty soon.
Crow gave Lenore a dirty look, crossing her arms and arching her eyebrows.
"What did you do?" she asked the cringing girl before hunching her shoulders and bowing her head in apology at Rabid.
"Sorry, Rabid. Whatever she did, I'm sure she'll be apologizing soon."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:10 pm
"He hasn't been well since the whole William f--you know, Julian," Rabid sighed and shook her head.
Aww...but the other problem is so fun...
Liam snerked, "Good. No more happy pills. Sorry. Yer officially a success...well...yer...ye know wha' I mean." He gave a worried look to Malachi. Man, the 19th-century Jerkwad had really messed with his head.
Clemmie stayed as far back as possible, wanting to stay far, far out of the way. She hated confrontation, no matter what the circumstance.
Ike sniveled and launched himself off of Mummy's lap, attaching to Julian as a sort of obsessive apology. Sure, the tall guy may not have had slightest idea what Ike and Len had been talking about, but it meant something to Ike.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:25 pm
Pfft. For YOU, anyway. It's getting kind of hard to get through the day without trying to kill something.
Looking at Malachi with a trace of sympathetic pity, Julian patted the boy's head awkwardly.
"Uh, it's okay, Ike. Don't worry."
Lenore, who knew nothing about William or what he had done to Ike, merely watched the procedings with forboding. Was she in trouble or not?
Chewing on the platter some of the snacks had come on in its third mouth, Yrglshnk'hh hovered next to the child that bore the same scent as its toys it had thrown into the tree. This one seemed to be moving about, so it let the girl be. Digging around in its mouth, it proffered a scrap of the aluminum tray to the girl to snack on as they watched the show.
"Glarft."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:31 pm
I tell you, Julian...I have minions to kill over and over and over...
Ike sighed deeply and dropped to the ground, feeling much better. He sat indian-style on the ground and stared at the floor, his ears twitching back and forth sporadically.
Clemmie gave a sharp intake of utterly pointless breath as the...whatever it was came toward her. She leaped back and, taking a look at the piece of tray, laughed nervously.
"No, I'm fine. Thank you," she said, but gingerly took the piece anyway. She didn't want to be supper for the corpse-treeing thing.
Rabid sighed and gave a groan of random frustration, dropping her head to her hands. Everything was so insanly screwy today, from the random professions of love to the drooly thing eating her table.
"Gods, does it never end?"
No. Of course not. You're the undead.
Flop.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:38 pm
Gullien nodded to Rex, raising an eyebrow at the pearl he was nonchalantly holding. "Nice to meet you, Rex." She greeted, nodding at the tall Mishap. Glancing over, she caught sight of another woman talking to Silencer. Another guardian? "I'm sorry, I've meet Maggie very briefly... who's this Jabir? Another guardian?" she asked Silencer. "Or does he co-own the shop?" She glanced curiously over at the other woman as she waited for Silencer's reply.
Thylassa made an eager grab for the fox as it went by, only to miss it completely as a large shadow loomed over the stroller. Forgetting the fox, she looked up and up and up. "Aaaa!" She called up, loosing the eye from her mouth and waving with both hands. Big thing. Big taily thing, like Gullien! Grab the tail?
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:40 pm
Crow, watching Yrglshnk'hh with a hand to her mouth to stifle a laugh, gave the obviously frustrated Rabid a pat on the back, smiling.
"Awesome party, Rabid."
You do? Where? Do their limbs come off? Can I skin them? I...HEY. Dude. Don't tempt me.
Julian shook his head and waved Liam off, rolling his eyes.
"Don't even say that around me - it's too tempting."
Sidling over to the group now that no one was determined to yell at her or try to rip her throat open, Lenore sat next to Ike and mimicked his sitting style.
"Sorry, Bah." she said genially, offering a spindly-fingered hand in apologetic peace.
"Still friends?"
Taking the polite rejection in stride, Yrglshnk'hh grunted and hovered off to attack the buffet table again.
After all, laying over a hundred eggs in one sitting on the bathroom ceiling was hungry work.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:48 pm
"Eeeeh," Rabid waved a hand dismissively and raised her head, "I need to get drunk..."
Sorry, but...if you ever need to take something out on someone...please get to me first, hm?
"Rabid, you can't d--oh, yeah. Sure," Liam turned away from the kids and slashed his wrist again, filling yet another wine glass, "Be careful."
Rabid gave her friend a drop of her own blood to heal and took the glass. She chugged its contents, handed the glass back to Liam, and squeezed the sides of her chair, gritting her teeth with one eye closed. Once the rush passed, she gave an involuntary shudder and her pupils shrank to a painfully small size.
"Thanks."
Great. Now she was in a bad state of mind.
Awful idea, you idiot.
Ike looked up to Len, and down to her hand. Instead of taking it, he just nodded and turned back to the floor.
"Not like Len can get rid of Ike 'nyway," he murmured and smiled slightly.
"Oh!" Clemmie gave a cry of shock and reached out toward the thing, "Mister...Missus...err...Plate-Giver...please leave some food for everyone else!" She dug around in the pocket of her dress and removed a handful of candies. Oh, but that wasn't enough.
"Errr...here. Do you like sugar?" she held out her trembling hand.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:58 pm
Uh oh.
Eyeing Rabid with something like apprehension, Crow leaned back in her chair a bit. She'd never been around when Rabid fed, and she wasn't too keen to get a first hand look at Vampiric eating habits.
Reaching out with her outstretched hand, Lenore ruffled Ike's hair with definite affection before glancing at Clemmie. She was talking to the blob-thing that had (until fairly recently) been residing in the bathtub.
"Huh. Looks like Clemmie made a new friend."
Stretching out an eyestalk to peer at the candy the Toy offered, the creature gave a gurgle in response. The eye split open into a mouth-like protrusion, a trail of slime trickling out and sweeping the candy delicately off her hand. The eyestalk-mouth sucked back into the creature with a wet slurping sound, and it gave a satisfied grunt. Hovering away from the table and out towards the ballroom door, Yrglshnk'hh settled down on the floor and sucked into its scaly exoskeleton to sleep.
Julian, watching everything with an air of mild interest, couldn't help but let his thoughts wander back to the "minions" of Liam's...
...and wondered how well they would burn.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:05 pm
Rabid gave a mildly sinister laugh and tried to clear her head. Both Crow and Julian were beginning to look quite attractive, although for totally opposite reasons.
Mymymy, this is going to be a looooong night.
"Huh. Guess so," Ike looked over to his sister and smiled and waved.
Clemmie gave an exaggerated silent scream to her brother and rushed over to him.
"It ate a tray."
They're animated corpses, my friend, Liam thought to Julian, hazarding a guess at what that glazed expression meant, piles of flesh and bones that do nothing but stumble around, eat stuff, and get themselves destroyed.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:13 pm
Seeing as he lacked some of the self-control Crow had learned hard, as well as the handy psychotic-outburst inhibitors she'd had permanently scarred into her skin, Julian gave a wicked smile. His pupils narrowed to razor thin slits, making the scarlet irises shine behind his dark hair.
"Care to show them to me sometime?" he asked in a calm tone, his pulse quickening just a little at the thought of burning flesh. It wouldn't be as satisfying with dead flesh, but hey, he wasn't going to complain.
"It tried to eat the alligator we found in the toilet, too. It tries to eat everything - that, and all it does is leak boogers and lay eggs that have little skeletons in them. It's kind of creepy." Lenore said, peering at the armored ball the blob-thing had shifted into.
Crow, not particularly liking the look Rabid was giving her, scooted back into her chair a little further.
Ah, c'mon. A day without something trying to kill me or eat me. Just ONE.
"Rabid? NO." she said firmly, crossing her arms and arching a brow in mild irritation. "No draining of bodily fluids."
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:18 pm
"Some time in a secluded area when this little issue is fixed," Liam said sternly. He was a lot more responsible than he seemed.
Sometimes.
"Oh," Clemmie shuddered, "Glad he didn't eat me."
"Yuh. That'd be scary. Leem'd hafta sew yuh back t'gether."
"I don't want your bodily fluids," Rabid snickered and leaned forward, purposefully keeping all infliction out of her voice. She wouldn't dare add stress to one word or the other. Double-meanings were fun.
"No. Bad Rabid," Liam gave her a sharp thwap on the head, "Pervy is my job."
Rabid cried out in pain.
"AT LEAST USE THE NORMAL ARM! Owwww..." she rubbed her head, her eyes returning to normal momentarily.
"Sorry," she said and blushed as they shrank again, "I'd never hurt you. I promise."
...yet you stabbed me in the chest.
Rabid turned her head and mumbled off to the side.
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Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:25 pm
She's probably thinking about the whole stabbing-thing.
"Well, I still owe you a free shot, whenever you want to take it," Crow said quickly, steepling her fingers together as she balanced the chair on two legs, the toes of her boots barely touching the floor as she kept herself up.
"Glad it didn't eat me, either. Not that it didn't try - had to cut off half of it's stupid tongue before it'd leave me alone," Len said conversationally, toying with her pendant idly.
Julian, bowed his head slightly, his predatory impulse refusing to abate as quickly as Rabid's seemed to, if at all. Nearly pupilless eyes fixed on Liam unblinking, peering through the curtain of hair.
"...Right. Once it's fixed." he said vaguely, taking a seat next to Liam and leaning on his knees, fingers interlaced.
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